Duan Gong and Duan Zhu launched three consecutive fierce attacks.
But the Heiyun Army camp was already impregnable. Behind the winding canal was antlers, and behind the antlers were mounds of earth. Duan Gong's proud Qingqi couldn't take advantage of it at all.
The defenders in the city had long lost their morale, and were driven to death by Duan Zhuan's troops in front of the battle.
The Jie and Hu people naturally fought to the death, but the Wuhuan and Jin people simply put down their weapons and knelt on the ground.
After more than ten days, the autumn harvest was completed.
270,000 shi of grain were harvested around Fangtou, 70% of which came from Tongshanpi and Baisipi, and the rest was replanted grain.
The news returned from Yanzhou was that there was neither a bumper harvest nor a bad harvest. The harvest of more than 5.3 million dan of grain had not yet reached Zhou Qian's budget.
This year has been relatively smooth, but farming is like this, it all depends on God’s face.
Another reason is that Li Yue adjusted the land tax. More Heiyun troops got the land, and the proportion of land tax dropped. There were also Chinese people who took the initiative to move from Hebei to Yanzhou. Li Yue classified them as common people, which further reduced the land tax. of food.
More than 5.3 million yuan is more than enough to maintain Yanzhou. The problem is that with Hebei in such chaos, Ran Min may collapse at any time.
Hundreds of thousands of Chinese people in Yecheng were crying for food.
However, Qingzhou's harvest is still being counted. Qingzhou's land is not as fertile as Yanzhou's, so it shouldn't be much different.
"Listen, people in the city, if we don't open the city and surrender within three days, no chickens or dogs will be left alive when the city is broken!"
A row of Black Cloud Army soldiers roared below the city.
The sufficient supply of food and meat has made every soldier of Heiyun stronger.
The armor held up by the knotted muscles seemed to be cracking.
On both sides of the river, a Black Cloud Army soldier stood with soldiers from other forces, and they could be distinguished at a glance.
His innate fierceness and self-confidence from the inside out make his spirit high-spirited.
The defenders on the city were silent for a while. To them, even though there was food and drink in the city, Fangtou was a dead place without any hope.
The core Xianbei people of the Duan clan are naturally willing to fight to the death, but the numerous other ethnic groups in the city will never be so united.
Three days passed quickly.
Without Ran Min's Wei army, this battle became simpler. This war was almost over, and the siege lasted for nearly five months. Duan Zhen's ability to hold on until now showed that he had extraordinary abilities.
If the siege continues, winter will enter, and the weather will be cold and freezing, making it difficult for soldiers to attack the city.
Li Yue asked Wang Teng to lead the surrendered troops as the forward, with the forward battalion behind, and began to attack the city.
War drums roared one after another.
The ground trembled, and the morale of the Black Cloud Army quickly reached its peak.
There were shouts of killing everywhere.
Many of the forward battalions were wearing double armor and carrying blunt weapons such as bones and hammers. When they stood there, they felt an evil aura out of thin air.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
The soldiers strode forward, rushing past like black clouds.
Seeing that a war was about to begin, the gate of Fangtou City opened with a creak.
The first few people, their flesh exposed and tied up, came out.
Rows of soldiers behind him walked out of the city empty-handed and knelt on the ground.
The forward battalion surrounded them, and Wei Shan immediately led hundreds of people to take control of the city wall.
There are still sporadic resistances in the city, and Jie people and Hu people are still making their final struggle.
"Duan has surrendered many times in the past ten years. It is natural for him to surrender to the Commander-in-Chief today." A smile appeared on Chang Wei's usually serious face.
"As long as a person bends the knee once, there will be a second and third time, and the same is true for a force." Li Yue was calm and not surprised by this result.
The entire force of Yanzhou is pressing forward, fighting steadily, without giving Duan Gong any chance, can he still defy the odds?
And this is also the safest method with the least casualties.
Under Fangtou City, there was a forest of swords and spears, lined up on the left and right. Surrounded by a group of black cloud generals, Li Yue rode his horse and walked slowly to the prisoners.
"Are you Duan Zhu?" Li Yue stared at the leader.
He has a yellow face, a mustache, and a slightly thin frame.
"That is the sinner."
"Why have you resisted me so far?" Li Yue glanced condescendingly at the powerful chiefs. It was not that he was arrogant, but that these people had always been fearful of power and unethical. You were too good to them, and they thought you were weak.
Shi Hu has always been cruel, but these people are loyal.
Similarly, when the Han Dynasty and Cao Wei were strong, these people dared to serve as vanguards, charging into battle for the Central Plains army and massacring their own people.
Back then, the Southern Xiongnu, Qiang Di, Wuhuan, and Murong Xianbei had always been thugs of the Han Dynasty and Cao Wei. However, the rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Sima Family made them see the incompetence and decadence of the Jin Dynasty.
"Boom!"
The black clouds around them slammed their shields and spears on the ground, making a roar as if they had a tacit understanding.
"Captain..." Sweat broke out on Duan Zhen's face.
The other chiefs were even more unbearable, and some simply collapsed on the ground.
"You don't understand the destiny and are stubbornly resisting. You should have cut your corpses into pieces and annihilated the three tribes. But for the sake of finally awakening, you will stay alive to see the consequences!"
"Thank you, Commander-in-Chief, for not killing me!" Everyone wanted to punch their heads into the loess.
Li Yue drove his horse into the city from among the prisoners.
Inside the city, Wei Shan was leading his men to strangle the Jie and Hu people who refused to surrender.
The corpses were carried one by one on the main street.
Many people knew they were going to die, so they simply stabbed themselves with knives, which saved Wei Shan a lot of trouble.
Duan Zhen surrendered, and Duan Kwan evacuated outside the city and fled to the northwest, probably to surrender to Zhang Ping of Bingzhou.
Two brothers, one defected to Yanzhou and the other to Bingzhou. Their eggs were not put in the same basket.
Chang Wei then took inventory of the treasury and found that there were more than 30,000 cattle, sheep, horses, camels and other livestock, more than 400,000 shi of grain left, and more than 4,500 war horses!
This batch of war horses is taller and stronger than Liu Guo's, and has extremely strong gravity.
There were more than 17,000 soldiers who surrendered, and there were more than 78,000 civilians in the city. Nearly 10,000 Jie and Hu died in the resistance. Those who did not resist were also driven out and killed by the vanguard battalion.
The hatred between the two sides has been deep-rooted for a long time and will not be resolved in a short time.
Ran Min is a living example. He killed Hu Ling and killed a great Chanyu. However, the Hu people did not appreciate it and escorted his great Chanyu's son to Xiangguo, where he died tragically under the knife of Shi Zhi.
The hatred between Xia and Hu has long become the general trend of this era.
The general trend of the world is vast and powerful. Those who follow it will prosper, and those who go against it will perish.
Li Yue did not dare to go against this general trend.
Thinking of Ran Min, Li Yue ordered 1,000 war horses, 5,000 livestock, and 100,000 shi of grain to be sent to Yecheng. He also singled out more than 20 beautiful female prisoners for Ran Min, secretly hoping that he would spend more. Focus on women, don't go around killing people with red eyes all day long...
The last reminder was to advise him to rest and recuperate. If he continues to fight like this, he will only become weaker and weaker.
Ran Min has almost won many wars since his debut, but a huge defeat in Xiang State directly broke Ran Wei's backbone.
Now that they are recuperating, it is still too late to form a back-to-back alliance with Yanzhou and form a north-south alliance to jointly resist the Murong clan.
It is absolutely no problem to last five or six years.
After four or five years, Li Yue, who is sitting in Yanqing and Qingzhou, will be able to accumulate strength and block the Murong family in Youyan first.
Ten years later, with the potential of the Central Plains, Li Yue was confident that he could compete with the Murong family.
But the question is, can Ran Min reach such a tacit understanding with himself...
(End of chapter)
